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R_Contrast: Rapid measurement of recognition contrast thresholds.
R_Contrast is a program for the rapid assessment of recognition contrast thresholds on the PC
Low-temperature antihydrogen-atom scattering
A simple method to include the strong force in atom-antiatom scattering is
presented. It is based on the strong-force scatteringn length between the
nucleon and antinucleon. Using this method elastic and annihilation cross
sections are calculated for hydrogen-antihydrogen and helium-antihydrogen
scattering. The results are compared to first-order perturbation theory using a
pseudo potential. The pseudo-potential approach works fairly well for
hydrogen-antihydrogen scattering, but fails for helium-antihydrogen scattering
where strong-force effects are more prominent.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Nuclear Instruments and
Methods
Weyl algebra and a realization of the unitary symmetry
summary:In the paper the origins of the intrinsic unitary symmetry encountered in the study of bosonic systems with finite degrees of freedom and its relations with the Weyl algebra (1979, Jacobson) generated by the quantum canonical commutation relations are presented. An analytical representation of the Weyl algebra formulated in terms of partial differential operators with polynomial coefficients is studied in detail. As a basic example, the symmetry properties of the -dimensional quantum harmonic oscillator are considered. In this case the usual set of the creation and annihilation operators is used as basis of the Weyl algebra under consideration. From this model are deduced the underlying symplectic structure and some of its consequences. In particular, the transitions from the initial \text{Sp}(d,\bbfC)-invariant model to the \text{GL}(d,\bbfC)- and, at last, -invariant models are performed
Peculiar Features of the Interaction Potential between Hydrogen and Antihydrogen at Intermediate Separations
We evaluate the interaction potential between a hydrogen and an antihydrogen
using the second-order perturbation theory within the framework of the
four-body system in a separable two-body basis. We find that the H-Hbar
interaction potential possesses the peculiar features of a shallow local
minimum located around interatomic separations of r ~ 6 a.u. and a barrier
rising at r~5 a.u. Additional theoretical and experimental investigations on
the nature of these peculiar features will be of great interest.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figure
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